New Domino Theory: Does China really want to attack Australia? Australian Foreign Affairs 19 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines China's ultimate goals as an emerging superpower, including the extent of its territorial ambitions. New Domino Theory looks at Australia's place in China's long-term plans and at the threat - if any - that Beijing poses to Australian security, pol ...Show more
Thoreau's Axe - Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious" Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it--most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
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Category: Politics
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more
You Shouldn't Have Joined... by Peter Cosgrove
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Category: Politics
General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is one of Australia's most significant public figures. As a soldier he saw action in Vietnam, winning the Military Cross, and rose to the very top of his profession, becoming Chief of the Defence Force. Soon after his retirement from the Army, he was ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2019 by Russ Radcliffe
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Category: Politics | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.With Dean Alston, Peter Broelman, Pat Campbell, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Alan Moir, David Pope, David Rowe, Andrew Weldon, ...Show more
The Dalai Lama's Cat: Awaken the Kitten Within by David Michie
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Category: Spirituality
As kittens we feel it often. All it takes is a wind-blown feather, an unexpected delicacy, or the alluring rush of water and instantly we are caught up in it- wonderment. Enchantment. Being fully absorbed in the here and now. By the time we reach senior status, way beyond the point of being impressed by ...Show more
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.--The New York Times Book Review A] bold and magnificent attempt to resurrect our Neanderthal kin.--The Wall Street Journal Kindred is the definitive guide to the ...Show more
The NeuroGeneration by Tan Le
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Category: Psychology
A highly engaging guided tour through the frontiers of what science knows about how the brain works, how to extend its power and how to fix it when it's broken.' - David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison and Teen Brain'Tan Le writes with optimism and compassion about the extraordinary evolution of brain ...Show more
Work. Love. Body.: Future Women by Jamila Rizvi, Helen McCabe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Gender
The future lives of women have changed drastically. As a growing number of women agitate for change, it is time to demand what women want. Through the lenses of work, love, and body, this powerful and essential essay collection asks: Will the Australia of tomorrow be more equal than the one we were born ...Show more
Letters of Note: Fathers by USHER, SHAUN
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with fathers at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com